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Thursday, 23 June 2016

HAIKU VERY MUCH

A Haiku is a poetic form that has not appeared on Bard at Bay despite there having been over two hundred posts since this blog began.I am not well acquainted with the Haiku and would refer those interested to Laura Sheridan'swebsite, where you will find a daily Haiku, or to John Buchanan'sexcellent poetry site, where you'll find advice on how to compose one of your own.My understanding is that the poetic form is Japanese, that it has three lines of five, seven and five syllables respectively and should contain a reference to nature.Using these guidelines, I constructed the following Haiku using a Japanese subject, a reference to nature in the form of a tree, and, of course, a five/seven/five syllable structure.Somehow I don't think Basho would approve.

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